piranesi
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Wasn't Earl Hebner orginally supposed to be a random guy that Dibiase paid to get surgery to look like Dave Hebner? Did they ever explain that away or abandon it, or am I supposed to still assume that Earl is that same random dude and that Dave is the only real Hebner?
Also, I just watched the Summerslam match where Warrior beat Honky for the IC belt...and it has to be the funniest, funnest moment in history.
"I said I'd wrestlen anybody! I didn't say I'd wrestle Warrior!!!!"
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I'd just like, every now and then, for the bookers to produce something that allows a man to stand in the ring and weep and scream unironically and have the crowd be totally with him, like at Funk's first retirement.
I realize that it's really hard to get there and it won't happen very often. But it should be the goal always. At least try to figure out how to get find the way back to that a few more times.
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Kaitlyn's spear is more effective and I'm not kidding! She's been killing other divas.
Kaitlyn has one of the better spears I can recall honestly.
Doesn't a lot of that have to do with AJ being a bumping maniac whose limbs snap and flail in terrifying ways?
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Maybe. But I don't think the Yankees in particular would sweat losing draft picks.
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Is it a matter of justice and ethics or a matter of just getting the job done and cleaning up the sport?
If pure justice matters, then we get into philosophical debates about who is culpable forever.
But if you just want to clean up the sport once and for all, then put pressure where the decisions are made, in the GMs office. If that's unfair, then billionaire Joe can sell his precious team and find a more forgiving hobby.
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What if teams were penalized when their players get caught with a DUI?How about if teams were penalized when their players get caught cheating?
You leave Tony La Ru out of this!!!!!!
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How about if teams were penalized when their players get caught cheating?
I suppose the problem is that a $10 million fine would mean little to the Yankees, but would be half of Houston's payroll. But if the league wants players to stop using PEDs, then it has to hurt the guys who make the decisions on who to draft, who to promote, who to sign.
Right now, the GM's stance seems to be "worst case scenario, we get our money back and buy someone else with it."
They have no incentive to run a clean clubhouse, and young players still have huge incentive to juice.
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He's not the first to learn that hard lesson:
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Back in the days when Nick at Night was around, and ran old 50s shows, I was watching DONNA REED and George Hamilton showed up as a teenager dating Shelly Fabares.
Even at seventeen and in black and white he managed to look thirty-five and orange.
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I'm pretty thrilled that Tugboat is still alive and seemingly healthy.
Also, per his wikipedia page, I might need to track down this angle
By the late 1990s, he was wrestling primarily in Florida, where he competed for FOW and WXO. In WXO, he was given a gimmick where he was too big to get out of his own car.I can't stop laughing at this post. Partly because I don't know whether the gimmick is that Tugboat was too fat for his car, or that he thought of himself as too big a star to open his own car door and required a valet. And partly because looking at that photo, I just realized that Tugboat is Phil Margera, and I'm picturing Bam beating the shit out of him while he takes a dump.
I think he just went by Fred Ottman in WXO.
I swear I saw this one late night on t.v., but I don't remember exactly what happened and it doesn't seem to be on youtube. I think it might have been a little convertible he was stuck in. But I do remember that they acted like he was a big star and that the name Fred Ottman known the world over...which, of all the names he wrestled under...that wasn't one of them.
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Is it? He's got to have hundreds of millions in various investments.
He's starting to fall into that pathological group along with Armstron and Bonds where some weird thing is driving them beyond money.
With Bonds it seemed to be that one record. He didn't need PEDs to be a great player, to be a hall-of-famer. Hell, he didn't need them to be the best player of his generation. But he wanted that one record, and he didn't think he could do it without them. Just to put that one fucking trophy on his mantel so he could stare at it.
I fucking hate that. It's insane.
Armstrong just seems to need to be a God to people, to have adulation all the time. He seems borderline psychotic and certainly close to sociopathic.
I haven't really paid much attention to him or the Yankees over the years. With A-Rod is it really just "The owe me and I won't give up what's mine?" He always struck me as having this weird victim complex where he seems to want to prove to everyone how much they should love him. And he's not going to let it go, no matter how absurd it becomes.
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Wow. A career that ends figthing with his own team who don't want him. Fighting with a league that doesn't want him. Fighting with a union made up of players who don't want him.
Fighting to prove what? That he wants to win? That he wants to play? In what scenario in his mind does this end with wreaths and rainbows?
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Lita's holding the camera, right?
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That just looks like aliens fucking.
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New Japan (that Jae ignores for some reason when March Madness rolls around) that some argue is the best.
Man it's too early for this shit. Come back with this around December.
Huh. I just assumed you spent the months between each March preparing by going through the same process Undertaker went through in between HHH/Mania matches, locked in a room scrapbooking the faces of those who have wronged you and making dolls out of your own hair.
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Great picture:
Cesaro: "That's coming to my face, isn't it? I may as well just relax and slip away."
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I will forever wish that Riley's face push continued. His initial turn on Miz was amazingly well done, he was over quick, delivered in the ring and I always thought he came off like a star alongside Cena & Orton in a couple multi-man tags. Shame it seems like any hope of another major push for him is gone.
You're just going to have to come to terms with this.
He's today's Virgil.
He's also tomorrow's lonely Virgil.
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That was really strange. Why waste our time with a Masuka side story when the entire show should be about Dexter/Deb/Vogel?
Dont' forget Hannah. It's going to get crowded.
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You might kayfabe that Vince wants to undercut Bryan's popularity, and he thinks having him beat Kane will make him a heel.
That stuff with Vince works so much better with Maddox than with most of the other GM's they've had. Those opening segments were so much better with a heel GM that can get heat without shrieking. When Cena called him a name, and he replied with a wink and a bang-bang gesture...good stuff.
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I'm normally not "the I hate Cena guy"...but I hope Bryan calls him on finding a way to make the payoff of Ryback taking advantage of Daniel Bryan and putting him through a table to be RYBACK...VS.....JOHN
CENA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in a TABLES MATCH!!!!!!!
If Bryan uses that to go a little heel on on Cena next week, fine. If not...then fuck Hulk Hogan. Bryan isn't anybodies lil' buddy.
No Tugboat!
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They're not all moving in that weird cartoony super fast motion, so I don't think so.
Although, it did have Red Shoendienst in it, and that doesn't help.
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Getting hard to argue those 2 aren't the best on the planet.
So many moves seemed like they came out of nowhere. That really is the difference between this and every other match. You could not predict waht they were going to do based on what the had been doing, or what it looked like they were about to do.
Even the announcers were guessing from moment to moment. When they were on the top rope and Lawler said "This is dangerous." He wasn't selling that, he was feeling it. You could hear it in his voice. He had no idea where that sequence was going.
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The Heyman-Punk stuff was outstanding.
It was a little long, and probably didn't actually need the Heyman part. It was just a good old school promo that was all emotion and no irony.
They've succeeded in bringing the Heyman/Punk relationship and story fully into the WWE universe by now so it doesn't have to go outside of story to insidery business references. It can just be based on what people remember from the last year or so.
And none of this "I'm doing this for the WWE universe" stuff. The same thing is working for Bryan. You don't need to be the champion of the people if the storyline itself is solid. It can be personal if you can carry it off.
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ZIP RZEPPA SIGHTING at 10:20!!!!!!!! and footage of Howard Johnson hitting a home run with his gimmicked bat!!! Awesome.
Herzog was carny as fuck.
You could have made a WWE-style video package out of this to set up the NLCS the next year.
It disturbs me how old this footage looks. Anyone under 30 watching this today might as well think it was form the 40s or something.
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Biogenesis Suspensions Begin...
in BASEBALL
Posted
I kind of also missed base stealing and defense and guys not striking out 200 times a year or not being intentionally walked seven times in a series.
A couple of those things have come back which is nice. But Big-Mac-ball K/K/HR/K/BB/BB/K/K/BB//K/BB//HR/HRK/K/K/BB/BB/K/K/K/BB/K/HR is boring.